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Emergent quantum phase transition in superconducting circuits
The THEORIE team has recently published a significant theoretical study in Nature Communications on the topic of quantum critical phenomena. This research addresses a current debate that questions the traditional understanding of dissipative quantum phase transitions...
Photonics Innovation Award 2024 for Hamidreza Neshasteh
Congratulations to Hamidreza Neshasteh and Florent Malabat, of the LIME team, who have received the Photonics21 Innovation Award 2024 !The award, with a prize money of €5,000 honours “the outstanding research on micron-scale laboratory housed on a single miniature...
Sara Ducci elected Optical Fellow
Congratulations to Sara Ducci, Professor at Lab. MPQ (Université Paris Cité / CNRS), who has just been elected Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA), "for her significant achievements in the field of integrated nonlinear quantum photonics, from fundamentals to applications,...
New topology of electron-photon states in cavity quantum materials
The THEORIE team just published in Phys. Rev. Lett. an article on the topological properties of cavity quantum materials. Topological materials exhibit extraordinary properties, thanks to the unique characteristics of their electronic wavefunctions. To grasp this...
Giuseppe Leo elected IUF Senior Member
Giuseppe Leo, Professor at Université Paris Cité and head of the DON team at MPQ laboratory, has been elected Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), with the title of Fundamental Chair. The role of the Institut Universitaire de France is to...
Pint of Science
Several of our researchers are participating in the Pint of Science festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It is one of the largest science festivals in the world. Until May 24th, researchers and the general public come together over a drink in...
Ivan Favero is awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant
Ivan Favero, CNRS senior researcher at the MPQ laboratory, has just been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. Ivan Favero The project, entitled TUPHO (TUning of PHOtonic resonators) aims to improve the reproducibility of micro and nanophotonic devices, which remains...
Neutralization of nanoparticles in lung cells
How does the body react to inhaled nanoparticles? In a collaboration involving researchers from the MEANS team at the MPQ laboratory, the evolution of molybdenum disulfide nanosheets in mouse lungs has been monitored for up to one month after inhalation....